![]() ![]() Pinky gets drunk and accidentally runs over a child. Gourav displays a masterful balance of these many conflicting emotions perhaps nowhere better than in the scenes following the birthday of Ashok’s wife, Pinky Madam (Priyanka Chopra Jonas). Simultaneously, the expectation of being a good servant is so ingrained in Balram that he sometimes takes pride in it, and his desire to switch places with his boss Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) even manifests itself in homoerotic tension between the two. As a driver, he masks his inner resentment toward his employers for their mistreatment of him with innocence and subservience. It interweaves three stages of his life: childhood (portrayed by Harshit Mahawar) in a small village, working as a wealthy family’s driver and running his own business managing other drivers. The story centers around Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), a self-proclaimed Indian entrepreneur. ![]() Namely, the movie loses much of the book’s satirical humor and leaves many moments without sufficient context. ![]() However, jamming so much of the original plot onto the screen also has downsides. The movie effectively captures Adiga’s vision of a piece of India - a dark story of soured class relations and corruption hiding under a facade of democracy. For the most part, sticking close to the novel’s events and language works. Netflix’s “The White Tiger” (2021) adapts Aravind Adiga’s award-winning book of the same name (2008) almost too well. ![]()
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